cn coin 11899

Forgery: Identified as a forgery in the Paris collection.

Connected to Type

CN Type 486 🔍

Mint

Krithote 🔍

Region: Thrace

Typology

Date

c. 350-281 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse

Design

Head of Demeter facing, slightly right.
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Reverse

Legend

ΚΡΙΘΟΥΣΙΩΝ

Design

Grain within corn wreath.
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Metrology

Denomination

large denomination (bronze) 🔍

Material

bronze 🔍

Weight

7.66 g

Owner

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques, Paris, fr ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 1644

Provenience: Fonds général 1644; RF 2347; Ex Platt 1925

Literature

Poole, BMC. Catalogue of Greek coins: the Tauric Chersonese, Sarmatia, Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, &c., Bologna 1979 p. 194, nr. 1 ❐

Hoover, Handbook of coins of Macedon and its neighbors. Part II: Thrace, Skythia, and Taurike: sixth to first centuries BC, Lancaster, Pa. London 2017 p. 115, nr. 1488 (Denomination B.) ❐

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cn coin 11899, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_11899 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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